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Model For New Generation Of Blood Vessels Challenged
In-growth and new generation of blood vessels, which must take place if a wound is to heal or a tumor is to grow, have been thought to occur through a branching and further growth of a vessel against a chemical gradient of growth factors. Now a research team at Uppsala University and its University Hospital has shown that mechanical forces are considerably more important than was previously thought. The findings, published today in the journal Nature Medicine, open up a new field for developing treatments.
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Supreme Court Nominees Should Disclose Views On Constitutional Issues, USA Today Opinion Piece States
One thing that "has been conspicuously absent" from the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is "substance," Jonathan Turley, the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University, writes in a USA Today opinion piece. According to Turley, "The vast majority of questions and answers remained on a shallow and predictable level where Sotomayor did little more than describe current doctrines and case law -- avoiding disclosures of her own views." He continues, "What is most striking is how Sotomayor"s statements were virtually identical to both her conservative and liberal predecessors," including her comments that Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey are "the precedent of the court."Turley writes, "The content-light character in these hearings is largely the product of the "Ginsburg rule" -- named after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who refused to answer questions in her 1993 confirmation hearing about any case or matter upon which she might later vote." According to Turley, "Later nominees for both parties have relied on the Ginsburg rule to turn the hearings into prolonged photo-ops for senators, who largely ask wafer-thin questions to solicit largely scripted answers." The rule "allows nominees to get by with meaningless sound bites that promise to respect precedent, the Framers [of the Constitution] and collegiality in general," he adds. Furthermore, it "tells the public nothing about a nominee"s philosophy or purpose before giving her life tenure on the world"s most powerful court," Turley writes.According to Turley, there is a "simple solution to returning substance to the confirmation process: End the Ginsburg rule by insisting that nominees answer questions about their specific views on constitutional rights." Although "the current system works well for presidents, nominees and senators," it "does little for the public or the system of justice," he writes (Turley, USA Today, 7/16).
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Opinion: Humanitarian Messaging; Maternal Health

Changing Humanitarian Messaging Could Save More People In a New York Times opinion piece, columnist Nicholas Kristof says G8 leaders are "collectively so far behind in meeting humanitarian aid pledges," and asks why it is easier "to try to assist a stranger before us" than "to donate to try to save strangers from malaria half a world away." Kristof writes, "There"s growing evidence that jumping up and down about millions of lives at stake can even be counterproductive. A number of studies have found that we are much more willing to donate to one needy person than to several." Humanitarians are "abjectly ineffective at selling their causes," he writes, arguing that "toothpaste is peddled with far more sophistication than the life-saving work of aid groups." Although there are "no easy answers here," Kristof writes, pointing out that if a toothpaste company had the same "miserable results in its messaging" as aid groups do, "it would go back to the drawing board." He concludes, "That"s what bleeding hearts need to do as well" (7/8). New Promise To Ensure Maternal Health Worldwide Needed Although the decision for President Obama and the first lady "to visit Ghana on the heels of the G8 summit in Italy this week" demonstrates the administration"s commitment to "develop a healthy and prosperous Africa," a new promise "must be made to provide highly cost-effective solutions to ensure that women are healthy before, during and after pregnancy," Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wis.) writes in an opinion piece in the Hill. According to Moore, it is "unacceptable" that "[m]ore than 500,000 women worldwide die from pregnancy each year, and millions more endure life-threatening complications." "The president has said, "We will not be successful in our efforts to end deaths from AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis unless we do more to improve health systems around the world, focus our efforts on child and maternal health, and ensure that best practices drive the funding of these programs,"" writes Moore, who adds that she is looking "forward to hearing from the president and first lady on this very issue following their trip to Ghana." She writes, "Improving impoverished women"s chances of survival before, during and after pregnancy is an issue of rights and social justice. It is also a sound economic and social investment, given the importance of women to the well-being of their children, families and societies" (7/7). This information was reprinted from globalhealth.kff.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at globalhealth.kff.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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